After years of being shot up by white supremacists, Emmett Till memorial to be replaced with bulletproof version

[H_Arendt]

@coolidge

What’s racist about taking a picture in front of a sign?

A memorial to the victim of a lynching is not the same as every other “sign.”

[markdido]

@CanadianJudo

What do you think the local black community feel with they view that picture.
what do you think the local black community feel when they see that memorial full of bullet holes.

that is terrorizing the public, its strong message telling them to shut up and get to the back of the bus they are not equal.

Man, that’s a ■■■■■■■ stretch.

You have quite an imagination!

[Bodecea]

@Snow96

@H_Arendt

Of course not. However, when you pose with guns in front of a shut up memorial to a lynched African American with guns, the photo is meant as a celebration of white privilege.

Is that against the law to do that? How about a hunter posing in front of a deer crossing sign that has bullet holes in it? Should they be charged with something?

@H_Arendt

Is that a crime? Probably not, if it cannot be proved that they shot up the sign. But it is an act of intimidation and hatred.

Some might see it that way other not. Again, what law did they violate?

@H_Arendt

Have any of the participants in the photo issued a statement.

Not sure. Just skimmed the article I read yesterday (how I know they got kicked out of their fraternity, university is taking no action, PD said nothing to charge them with, and some want the Feds to look into a hate crime charge.)

Now do you think they should be charged with a hate crime? Is it a slippery slope if they are charged?

Murdered Tillman = deer sign now?

[Bodecea]

Excuses…Excuses…Excuses…

[Excast]

@markdido

Man, that’s a ■■■■■■■ stretch.

Less of a stretch than the people who act like shooting up this memorial is like taking a shot at a stop sign.

[SixFoot]

@Excast

@Snow96

What law would you charge them under?

How about terrorizing the public?

Wow. Thank God you don’t write the laws. lol

[SixFoot]

This whole Bigot Hunting Fatwā has gotten waaay out of control. A group of morons pose for a bad picture, and now they need to be hunted down like terrorists.

Maybe we should drone strike them. lol

[H_Arendt]

@Excast

Just days after 3 University of Mississippi students took pictures of themselves holding guns in front of the bullet ridden memorial, a sign marking the spot where 14 year old Emmett Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River has been removed to make room for a 600lb, bulletproof replacement. For those not familiar with Till, he was tortured and murdered in the mid 50s for the crime of allegedly flirting with a white girl.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/26/us/emmett-till-new-marker/index.html

The sign originally went up in 2007 and became a favorite target for local racists. It has been repeatedly shot at and stolen. The latest vandals are currently under investigations by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

The ethos that led to the lynching of Emmet Till remains strong.

[Jezcoe]

Remember that time a couple of members of the New Black panther party stood outside of a polling place in a black neighborhood in Philly and the Right lost it’s ■■■■■■■ mind?

And now I see people throwing out a no big deal on this.

Crazy times.

[Excast]

@Jezcoe

Remember that time a couple of members of the New Black panther party stood outside of a polling place in a black neighborhood in Philly and the Right lost it’s ■■■■■■■ mind?

And now I see people throwing out a no big deal on this.

Crazy times.

As we have heard time and time again from our friends on the right, those brown skinned people were likely thugs. Menacing.

And white people doing the exact same, if not worse? Troubled kids. Come from a good home though. Bright futures and they need a second chance.

[Jezcoe]

@Excast

@Jezcoe

Remember that time a couple of members of the New Black panther party stood outside of a polling place in a black neighborhood in Philly and the Right lost it’s ■■■■■■■ mind?

And now I see people throwing out a no big deal on this.

Crazy times.

As we have heard time and time again from our friends on the right, those brown skinned people were likely thugs. Menacing.

And white people doing the exact same, if not worse? Troubled kids. Come from a good home though. Bright futures and they need a second chance.

It’s almost like white privilege is a thing or something.

[RoyalBlue]

Emmitt Till was killed because of the lies a white woman told. She admitted years later that she lied. No charges. But Jussie Smollett, we need to lock his ass up!

[merickson]

@CanadianJudo

What do you think the message they are sending to the black community is with this action? …

I don’t think those kids were sending a message to the black community.
I think they were sending a message to their peers “look at us be naughty, non-PC and cool”.

Which doesn’t invalidate anything that the black community might feel about their photo. Their intent and their result might not match. And their result isn’t limited by their intent.

[Snow96]

Now tell me the difference between a picture of some people standing in front of a sign with guns, and actually having to walk past a person with a gun to get into a polling place. Not one who lost my mind over it, but the optics of THAT (aka walking physically past a person holding a gun to get into your polling place) is not right.

[Snow96]

@Excast

And white people doing the exact same, if not worse?

Really???

Kids standing with guns next to a sign is WORSE than physically having to walk past a person carrying a gun to vote???

I think the thing in person is much worse (since your comparing the two) than looking at a picture.

[Jezcoe]

@Snow96

Now tell me the difference between a picture of some people standing in front of a sign with guns, and actually having to walk past a person with a gun to get into a polling place. Not one who lost my mind over it, but the optics of THAT (aka walking physically past a person holding a gun to get into your polling place) is not right.

They weren’t holding guns.

[Snow96]

Pictures I saw they had a rifle slung over their shoulder.

[Jezcoe]

@Snow96

Pictures I saw they had a rifle slung over their shoulder.

You are remembering incorrectly.

One of them had a billy club.

[Snow96]

Only pics I can find it looks like a large metal pipe he’s holding. Person STILL has to physically walk past that person to vote.

That is still far worse than looking at a picture.

[Jezcoe]

@Snow96

Only pics I can find it looks like a large metal pipe he’s holding. Person STILL has to physically walk past that person to vote.

That is still far worse than looking at a picture.

As I said… Some lost their mind over one incident and see the other as no big deal.

It is crazy